John Bowen
John Bowen has coached football for 25 years, including 20 years as a head varsity football coach. At each of his coaching stops, his team has set and broken numerous school records for offense and scoring. His tenure has produced dozens of college football players as well as a national collegiate and Super Bowl champion.
Bowen is currently the head football coach at Montgomery County High School in Mount Vernon, Georgia, where he also serves as the school’s athletic director. The 2016 season saw the MCHS Eagles go on their longest win streak in 27 years while scoring more points and gaining more yards than the two previous seasons combined. In 2017, Montgomery County recorded its rst winning season since 1989 while averaging 32 points per game. In this most recent season, the Eagles offense combined portions of the wishbone, run-and-shoot, I formation, and even some wing-T.
Bowen was previously the head football coach at two other Georgia high schools—Cross Keys and Hephzibah. In 2008 and 2009, he led Hephzibah High School to the Georgia AAAA state playoffs for only the second and third time in the school’s 150- year history. In 2014, Bowen led the Rebels to the GHSA state AAA playoffs (the third appearance in seven years, for a program that had only been in the state playoffs once in its entire history before Bowen’s arrival) despite a coaching shortage that led to him lling the roles of head coach, offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator, and special teams coordinator. In week seven, he was awarded the Atlanta Falcons Coach of the Week award for excellence in coaching and community involvement. In December 2014, Bowen was named the head coach of the National squad for the CSRA Senior Bowl IV. The National squad had yet to win this all-star bowl game in its rst three events—but Bowen’s National squad won the game 28-6. In addition to his football experience, Bowen has been a head coach for boys’ and girls’ basketball, boys’ soccer, baseball, boys’ and girls’ golf, and track, with trips to the state tournament in many of those other sports.
Bowen was born in Decatur, Georgia. He is the son of David and Rhoda Bowen of Atlanta, Georgia. He is a graduate of the Senior Military College of Georgia (North Georgia College in Dahlonega, Georgia). While at North Georgia College, he was an intercollegiate athlete participating on the soccer team, earning a scholarship in that sport. Even though an ankle injury ended any military career options, this apparent setback actually just hastened the start of the great journey of football coaching that he was set to begin after ful lling his military obligations as a recipient of the Georgia Military Scholarship for academic, military leadership, and physical tness excellence.
Bowen is married to Tonya, a school media specialist, and has one son, Jordan.
